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Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy

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On May 23, 2026 at 10:00:31 AM MST, "phoenix" wrote
<n7e4piFm1moU1@mid.individual.net>:

> zendejo wrote:
>> On 5/23/26 10:37 AM, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>> He’s tacitly admitting he does not understand the very points he
>>> brings up.
>> 
>> 
>> Finally, it might seem churlish to pick on a single mainstream media
>> RCP8.5 nonsense story, but there is one that is your correspondent’s
>> favourite. This article not only reported RCP8.5 fantasies but climbed
>> even further heights, going where no other story has gone before. In May
>> last year, Mark Poynting of the BBC claimed that “scientists say”
>> coastal land and beyond could be overwhelmed with several metres of sea
>> level rise if global temperature moves by three-tenths of a degree
>> centigrade. This claim was arrived at by pushing the boundaries well
>> beyond what even SSP5-8.5 (a newer version of RCP8.5) predicted. Based
>> on a paper looking at polar ice melt, which gave a high emissions
>> projected rise by 2100 of between 12 and 52 centimetres, Poynting
>> chanced on a suggestion that the IPCC said it could not rule out
>> (admittedly with “low confidence”) that the pathway could point to a sea
>> level rise of over 15 metres by 2300. So Poynting got his several metres
>> of inundation story, “even if ambitious targets of limiting global
>> warming to 1.5°C is met”.
>> 
>> Purely anecdotal, but the BBC seems to have moderated its wilder climate
>> stories of late with the “Climate” topic on its News site relegated to
>> the second tier of subjects. This might be considered a bit of a status
>> drop for a subject whose authors had past pretentions to provide an
>> essential core for all reporting. Now it finds itself rubbing shoulders
>> with the picture gallery and the dumbed-down “Newsbeat” offering.
>> 
>> 
>> But we must avoid the temptation to intrude on private grief. It is to
>> be hoped that this move does not spell the end of the highly imaginative
>> claptrap classics that have added to the gaiety of the nation over so
>> many years. Regular readers will recall climate change could make beer
>> taste worse and the Gulf Stream could collapse by 2025 – how we shall
>> miss all this copy aimed at the idiot short of a village.
>> 
>> 
> In all other things, submitting that the worst scenario is not
> plausible, one might seek the actual worst case scenario instead of
> throwing the baby out with the bathwater and living a life of ease,
> whistling under a tree and forgetting about the whole deal. Had you
> considered this? If this RCP8.5 is not plausible, what is? Perhaps a
> milder case of terribleness? That we might have 20 years to save
> ourselves instead of 15? What do you hope to gain by harping about the
> irrationality of RCP8.5 while climate change remains a true concern?
> 
> It seems rather than arguing about climate change and what might be
> discerned from facts, you would rather leap upon an admission that it's
> not as bad as we had thought and trumpet it to the skies saying the
> whole thing is a sham. The only reason to do this would be if it were
> arrived at RCP8.5 with the intention to deceive, yet you have shown none
> of this. Climate change is a difficult science and perhaps we fail at it
> from time to time, but what do you actually contribute to the
> conversation or question regarding it besides second grade putdowns and
> an unwillingness to come to the table with an intent to be earnest?
> 
> BTW thanks a whole lot for reporting me to the FBI. They've slowed down
> my machine considerably and I may have to throw it out.
> 
> Is it too much to ask for grownups to communicate with and not second
> grade tattle tales?

Well worded. But keep in mind the corporations that benefit -- short term --
from not dealing with the well understood harm have told him to ignore
science. So he does. Add to that, the conspiracy theorists get to feel special
-- they are "in the know" with their ignorance. Psychologically it helps them
not feel so out of control.

It really is a shame.

-- 
It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with you.

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Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-22 16:29 -0600
  Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-22 22:42 +0000
    Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 09:14 -0600
      Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 10:32 -0600
        Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 16:37 +0000
          Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 10:47 -0600
            Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 16:55 +0000
              Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 12:28 -0600
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 18:53 +0000
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 14:08 -0600
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 01:05 +0000
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Dietrich Von GassenHousen <Dietrich@ZyklonB.org> - 2026-05-24 01:58 +0000
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-24 11:13 -0600
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 17:51 +0000
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-24 13:13 -0600
            Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 11:00 -0600
              Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 18:14 +0000
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 12:32 -0600
              Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 12:31 -0600
        Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 10:41 -0600
          Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 16:54 +0000
            Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 12:27 -0600

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